Personal Knowledge/Learning Graph

Educational data mining and learning analytics have to date largely focused on specific research questions that provide insight into granular interactions. These insights have been abstracted to include the development of predictive models, intelligent tutors, and adaptive learning. While there are several domains where holistic or systems models have provided additional explanatory power, work around learning has not created holistic models with the level of concreteness or richness required. The need for both granular and integrated high-level view of learning is further influenced by distributed, life long, multi-spaced learning that today defines education. Drawing on social and knowledge graph theory, we propose the development of a Personal Knowledge/Learning Graph (PKLG) an open and learner-owned profile that addresses cognitive, affective, and related elements that reflect what a learner knows, is able to do, and processes through which she learns best. This talk will introduce PKLG, detail required technical infrastructure, and articulate how it would interact with established learning software. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Educational Data Mining 5